Colocation in Nigeria

Yes. Ship your equipment to the facility and our team receives it, racks it, cables it, and brings it online. Remote hands handle changes after that.

Each footprint includes a power allowance — 500 W on a quarter rack, 1 kW on a half rack, 3 kW on a full rack. Draw above the allowance is billed at $500 per kW per month, and larger footprints include redundant A+B feeds.

Yes. You can cross-connect to multiple carriers and peers, or use our blended local IP transit — you're never locked to a single upstream.

Yes. That's a core reason teams colocate with us. Your hardware and data stay physically in the region you choose, on the continent.

Colocation is offered on standard commitment terms that scale with your footprint. Talk to sales for terms on quarter, half, full racks, and cages.

Yes. Connect colocated hardware to Lineserve Cloud Servers, Dedicated Servers, and Object Storage over private networking within a region for a hybrid setup.

In Lagos, in our ng-1a region — the same city where the country's international capacity lands and where the Nigerian networks interconnect.

Colocation is quoted rather than listed, because footprint, power draw, connectivity and term all move the number. Send [email protected] an equipment list with the rated draw per unit, the space it occupies, what you want cross-connected and how long you want the term to run, and you will get a Naira figure per month.

From a single U for a box or two, through a quarter rack at 10U and a half rack at 21U, to a full rack at 42U — and private cages and suites for larger environments. Each footprint carries a power allowance sized to it, with draw above the allowance metered.

Larger footprints take A and B feeds, so a single feed failure does not take your equipment down. Your quote states the allowance for the footprint you take and how draw above it is metered — tell us the rated draw per unit and it is sized from that rather than estimated.

Ship them to Lagos. Hardware entering Nigeria is an import, so your clearing agent handles duty and import VAT at the port — worth starting before the boxes leave the supplier, because clearance is the step most likely to move your go-live date. Tell us when the shipment is due and what is in it, and our engineers receive it, rack it, cable it and label it against the elevation you sent.

The physical work you would otherwise drive across Lagos for: reboots, reseating a drive or a card, swapping a failed part you have couriered in, recabling, moving a cross-connect, and racking new equipment. Remote hands are included from a half rack up and available on smaller footprints.

Yes. Colocated hardware reaches Lineserve Cloud Servers, Dedicated Servers and Object Storage over private networking inside ng-1a. That is how most hybrid builds here work — owned equipment for the steady base load, rented capacity for the fourth-quarter peak, and an S3-compatible bucket on ng-1a.s3.lineserve.net as the backup target.

In Naira, by bank transfer or card. On a contract this size most Nigerian finance teams settle by transfer, which is how business-to-business money moves here — NIBSS has run the NIP instant payment scheme since 2011 and it is the largest on the continent, carrying 5.63 billion transactions worth ₦476.89 trillion in the first half of 2024 alone.

No. The quote is in Naira and settles inside Nigeria, by transfer or card, so it sits outside the cap a Nigerian bank applies to international spending on a Naira card. Over a multi-year term that is the difference between a standing claim on scarce foreign-currency headroom and an ordinary domestic supplier payment — and it leaves the headroom for the part of this that genuinely is an import, which is the hardware itself.

No — quoted figures exclude VAT, and Nigerian VAT of 7.5% is added on the invoice. That is materially below the 16% a Kenyan deployment carries and the 18% on the Tanzanian mainland.

Possibly, and on a multi-year contract it is worth settling before signature rather than after the first invoice. A Nigerian withholding agent files a monthly electronic schedule carrying each supplier's TIN, address, the nature of the transaction, the tax deducted and the invoice number, so your finance team needs the supplier details on file to pay you correctly. The applicable rate turns on the service and on the supplier's residence — Lineserve invoices Nigeria from LINESERVE, INC. — so take it to your tax adviser and bring [email protected] into the conversation.

Yes. Your equipment is in Lagos and the data on it stays in-country, which gives you data residency for Nigeria's Data Protection Act (NDPA). Section 41 governs transfers of personal data out of the country, and that question does not arise for data that never leaves.

The circular of 15 June 2026 directs that payment transaction data generated in Nigeria be stored and managed in Nigeria, with full compliance from 1 January 2027, and it places that obligation on the licensed entity. Equipment in ng-1a is equipment in Nigeria. Whether your overall arrangement meets the directive is a question for you and your counsel — Lineserve supplies the location.

Compliance is yours, and in a colocation arrangement more of it sits with you than it would with a managed service, because you operate the equipment and the software on it: registration where section 44 applies, notices, lawful basis, breach reporting. What Lineserve supplies is the location, the power, the cooling, the network and the hands.

Yes — that is the product. Your servers, your storage, your switches, your operating systems, your hypervisor, your configuration. Send a rack elevation with the rated draw per unit and tell us what needs cross-connecting to what, and the environment is built to it.

Yes. Lagos, Nairobi and Dar es Salaam are all live regions, and a production footprint in ng-1a with a disaster-recovery copy in another country is a common pattern. Bear in mind that replicating personal data out of Nigeria is a cross-border transfer under section 41, and CBN-scoped data carries its own position.

If you already own hardware that works, or you have a certification, a licence or a support contract tied to specific equipment, colocation keeps all of that and changes only the building. If the hardware is due for replacement anyway, a dedicated server puts the refresh cycle, the spares and the replacement commitment on us for a fixed Naira figure a month. Plenty of Nigerian teams run both in ng-1a and join them over private networking.

Through [email protected] for quotes, contracts and move-in planning, and the ticket system on your account for everything operational. Nigeria runs on West Africa Time, UTC+1, with no daylight saving — two hours behind Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, which is worth building into a maintenance window that spans regions.